Helpful advice from the TUC, and other odds and ends

With regard to the prospect of pandemic 'flu, it suggests that employers should not panic.

Doubtless FTSE 100 chairmen and others will be disappointed to hear that pulling a headless chicken act is not what the TUC advises.

And sticking with statements of the obvious, the Swedish police have concluded that a bomb attack on a Göteborg pizzeria was 'deliberate'. As opposed to all of those bomb attacks that just happen randomly.

Over at UN HQ, Ban Ki-moon has come up with a contender for the world's greatest euphemism in his description of Kurt Waldheim: "He lived history". Hmm.